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PAGE THREE SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1951 Trevorton Section FBI Officers Continue Search for Milton Man The Federal Bureau of Investiga Mrs. Ida Ships Dial 2373 Local Ukrainians Honor Memory of Shevchenko Members of Ukrainian Brotherhood Club honored the memory of Taras Shevchenko, nineteenth century poet of Old Ukraine, yesterday during religious services and social activities. Club members joined in a memorial mass in Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Transfiguration, Shamokin and Clay Streets. Rev. Omelan Sharanevych, pastor, and Rev.

John Lazar, assistant pastor, officiated. Refreshments were served in the club rooms at Shamokin and Independence Streets. Trunks Checked In Death Inquiry TUNKHANNOCK, March 12 (U.R) Investigators seeking the dismembered body of o5-year-old Mrs. Anna Snellman Hcmeyer turned their attention today to tiyo "exceptionally heavy" trunks her husband sent to California. West Coast police were asked to investigate.

An express company agent told police that Charles E. Homeyer, 53, sent the trunks last June, about 10 weeks after the death of Anna, his sixth wife. He has since married a seventh time. Homeyer has confessed to hacking MacArfhur Warns Aggressors Must Be Halted in Korea TOKYO, March 12 (U.R) General Douglas MacArthur said today that Communist aggressors must be halted in Korea or they will use their victories there as a springboard to attack other parts of the world. "Asia is the gateway to their plans," he said in a statement.

MacArthur said the present aggression in Asia is being masterminded by men who want to impose Communism on the entire world and are willing to resort to to gain their end. "They seize power as a springboard to more power without the slightest regard for geographical or political boundaries and their ambition is insatiable," he said. The Allied commander said the Communist threat still is great despite the fact that the challenge has been met in Korea and its advance retarded. He said the people of Asia are not so interested in ideologies as they are in a decent way of life in enough to eat and in enough to wear. "As poverty lifts, so will the threat his wife's body but insists it happened after, he found her dead in bed and became panicky.

He told police he threw parts of her body in the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers. A skull, identified as that of the sixth Mrs. Homeyer was found last New Way to Hold FALSE TEETH also prevents denture breath Accident Disables Rail Line Service PHILADELPHIA, March 12 (U.R) An empty train tore down over head power wires for a distance of one mile on the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line today, putting two tracks out of service. Trains from the west were re-routed for several hours. Suburban commuter trains on the Paoli-to-Philadelphla run were delayed 10 minutes during the morning rush period when passengers had to cross the two out-of-service tracks and board Inbound trains which were switched to one of the two outbound tracks.

Outbound commuter trains used t3 other track. Six trains from the west by-passed Philadelphia and were sent to Trenton on the Tren ton cut-off. Passengers for Philadelphia rode back from Trenton. The accident occurred at 2:17 a. m.

when a 15-car deadhead train ripped the power lines down between Berwyn and Devon. A dozen Paoli-to-Philadelphia trains leaving between 6:00 a. m. and 9:17 a. m.

were delayed because of the loading slowdown between Paoli and Brjn Mawr. Local VFW Sponsors Program at Hospital Blyler-Quinn Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Shamokin, sponsored a weekend entertainment program in Danville State Hospital. The performance included orchestral selections, vocal solos and dances by individuals and groups. Members of the cast were Emily Linkus, Kay Reiprich, Patricia Hoffman, Jacqueline Dauksha, Stanley Dzienisiewicz, Mary Lou Arasin, Mona Marie Snyder, Cecelia Orme and Sonia Wallick. Orchestra personnel included Ned Troutman, Arthur Bamford, Dalila Snyder, David Kaseman, Robert Zanker and Patrick Laughlin.

George Snyder, Shamokin, assisted in the promotion. tion Is continuing its search for Clinton Barton, 35, Milton, wanted for federal parole violation, and a 17-year-old girl who allegedly disappeared with him last week. Officers of the Williamsport FBI headquarters said the couple is being sought In Washington, D. area, as Barton is a former resident of Washington. Barton, lived in Sun bury and was working in Milton when he disappeared at the same time the girl was reported missing.

He is wanted for violation of parole from a federal penitentiary, where he served a year for transporting a stolen car in foreign commerce. Company (Continued from 'Page One) safety regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commissio- He said that recently there has been one wreck and one near wreck because of faulty airbrakes. At the same time, a company spokesman described the work of the trainmen as "delayed action." "They just move slowly," the spokesman said. "Everybody showed up for work but they just went through the motions "of working." Moreell said all of L's six blast furnaces and their 23 open hearths were shut down by last night. The mills would remain closed, he said in a telegram to Assistant Secretary of the Army Karl A.

Bedetsen, "until normal service can be obtained from this railroad." In Washington, weekend efforts to settle the dispute failed before the Railway Mediation Board and officials viewed the shutdown with concern. The Moncon has been under Army seizure since January 21. Moreell said the 500 members of the BRT on the Moncon demanded a 35-cents-an-hour wage increase. A few weeks ago refused the union demand, but made a counter offer to fit in the national pattern. Under that offer, the BRT could retain the 20 per cent pay increase, but the work week would be extended to 48 hours to increase take-home pay.

The company also offered, subject to approval by the Wage Stabilization Board, a cost- of-living escalator clause. The Moncon hauls raw materials to local and performs neces sary switching operations. It con nects with the Pittsburgh Lake Erie and the Pennsylvania Railroads which run close to the plants. Moreell said the shutdown of the mills would halt production of steel, much of which was "under government allocation for the defense ef fort." He said the firm's expansion program would "be stopped or seriously delayed." At the same time, he said, construction of 11 new open hearths designed to turn out one million, 980 thousand tons of ingots annually will be stopped. 'We have been informed by gov-, ernment authorities this increased production is vitally essential to our mobilization effort," Moreell said.

Neary, Jo Anne Bradley, Dorothy Sitarick, Ruth Kramer and Joyce Wilson were in charge of make-up. In charge of properties were Sally Ann Brightbill, Marie Barnabe, Theresa Calabretta, Margaret Fitz- patrick and Audrey The choir was directed by Mrs. Marcella Sunbury and organist was Mrs. Mildred Madl. Accompaniment for the various numbers was played by Mrs.

Madl and Joseph Werntz. The troupe of performers will pre sent the same program tomorrow evening in St. Francis of Assisi Church, Harrisburg. Pottsville Student Hurt In Crash of Two Autos Robert Shaneman, 17, Pottsville High School student, was seriously injured in a two-car collision at the Orwigsburg cut-off on the Pottsville-Reading highway. Shaneman is reported to be in "fair" condition in Pottsville Hospital.

Doctors said he sustained possible fractures of the skull and nose. Shaneman was a passenger in a car operated by Michael J. Lutkus, Palo Alto. The car was struck in the rear by, a car opeated by Fancis Starrett, Port Carbon. Starrett received treatment for lacerations of the nose.

week in the nearby Factoryville home where the couple lived. Homeyer is in Wyoming County jail in default of bail on a charge of forging his wife's name to a house deed. He was arrested after he returned from California to sell the house, bringing with him Mrs. Snell-man's pet Youll Fl Thai Evan a Team of HortM Couldn't Budg Your Denture GUARANTEE a double action denture adhesive else like DR. HEA'lti'i.

Large DR. HEATH'S" DOUBLE ACTION DENTUREADHESIVE Rev. D.P. Reardon Honored by Parish In Entertainment Representatives of nine St. Joseph Church organizations last evening presented a special program in the parish hall in honor of Rev.

Denis Patrick Reardon, pastor of the church, who next Saturday, St. Patrick Day, will observe his birthday anniversary. Rev. Denis P. Reardon The program was varied and consisted of musical selections, dances, baton twirling, recitations and plays.

Church societies represented in the program included Boy Girl Scouts, choir, Cub Scouts, Holy Name Society, Rosary, Sodality, St. Vincent de Paul Lodgfe and National Council of Catholic Women. After opening selections by the church choir, a tafp dance and baton twirl was presented by Marie Small-ets. An act, "The Great Wizard," was presented next by Frank Young, John Smallets and Joseph McAllister. Following a solo, "When I Dream of Old Erin," by Marie Barnabe, a one-act play, "The White Phantom," was given by the following cast: Thomas Glennon, Margaret Lahn-stein, Marcella Augustine, Geraldine Bogetti, Helene Harman, Frank Lahnstein and James Glennon.

A performance by the Girl Scouts followed, after which Jo Anne Bradley and Rita Neary staged a waltz clog dance. Boy Scouts participated in the program by presentation of an accordion solo, played by Ronald Dinger, and dancing of the Irish reel by Robert Eckman, John Dor mer, George Boblick, Ronald Williams, Eugene Flynn and Jerry Curran. Two. vocal selections, "Did Your Mother Come from Ireland" and "A Little Bit of Heaven," were sung by William Brennan, after which Mrs. Martin Gallagher de livered a recitation.

An act, entitled "The Lousy Five," was presented by Richard Lipsett, William Koppen, Frank Young, Francis Mack and Joseph McAllister. William Brennan, appeared in the act, also. Final performance was singing of "Till We Meet Again," by the entire company. Gifts were presented to Father Reardon by the following persons: John Smallets, representing the Boy Scouts; Mrs. Marcella Sunbury, choir; Francis Mack, Cubs; Cecelia Wargo, Girl Scouts; Gerald Carpen ter, Holy Name Society; Margaret Dormer, National Council of Catholic Women; Mary Lubnow, Rosary Society; Barbara Quinn, Sodality, and John Madl, St.

Vincent de Paul Lodge. Committee in charge of the pro gram consisted of Joseph McAllister, general chairman; Frank Young, assistant chairman; Gerald Carpenter, Mrs. Kyran Dormer, William Kop pen, Richard Lipsett. Mrs. Thomas Lubnow, Francis Mack, Miss Cecelia Wargo, Mrs.

David Richardson, John Smallets and Mrs. Martin Sunbury. Refreshments were prepared and served by members of the Rosary Society and the church council of National Council of Catholic Women and decorations were by Blessed Virgin Mary Sodality and Girl Scouts. John Shultz and Harry Brightbill were in charge of lighting the stage I effects and Mary Jane Murphy, Rita MONEY BACK The invention of Officers Nominated By Trevorton VFW Members of Houser-Strausser Post Veterans of Foreign Wars, Trevorton, nominated officers for the next term during a meeting in the post headquarters at Dornsife. Opposition was provided for every office with the exception of chap lain and surgeon.

The election will be held during the next regular meeting. Members nominated for various offices are as follows: commander, Theodore Worbel, Leonard Foulds and William Donovan; senior vice commander, Ben Brubaker, Thomas Deroba and John Watkeys; junior vice commander, Charles Moody, James O'Rourke and Melvin Beisel; quartermaster, Peter Kidron and Anthony DeSantis; advocate, Melvin Beisel and Ben Boblick; chaplain, Robert Kramer; surgeon, Leon Moody, and trustees, Ralph" Miller, Melvin Beisel, Joseph Knarr, Michael Stassick, Charles Moody and Gerald Leader. THS Student Hurt In Gym Accident Voris Baskin, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Baskin, Coal Street, Trevorton, is under treatment in Geisinger Memorial Hospital, Danville, for a severe arm injury sustained when he fell from a springboard while attending a physical education class in Trevorton High School gymnasium.

Baskin, a carrier for the Shamokin News-Dispatch in Trevorton, sustained a compound fracture of his left arm at the elbow. Soon after the accident, the boy was taken to Shamokin Hospital, but was later transferred to Geisinger Hospital for treatment by an orthopedic specialist. His condition is reported to be favorable today. According to reports by other students attending the class, the Baskin boy lost his balance when he leaped from a spring board and fell heavily to the gymnasium floor. He struck a wall before falling to the floor.

Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Dennis, Chevy Chase, Md are visiting Mrs.

Dennis' mother, Mrs. Annie Arrison, Shamokin Street. Miss Agnes Otto is reported ill in the home of her niece, Mrs, Jessica Houghton, Shamokin Street. Mr. and Mrs.

Merrill Ford and daughter, Sandra, returned to their home in Jeannette after spending the weekend with Mrs. Ford's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. H. Ross Sheely, Shamokin Street.

Mrs. A. C. McCall, who lives with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.

Sheely, accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Ford and daughter to the western part of the state to spend several weeks. Ladies Auxiliary of Trevorton Fire Company will meet tomorrow evening in the company home, beginning at 7:00. Members have been urged to attend the meeting, after which everyone present will assist in making candy.

George Reck, Leonardtown, Miss Mary Frances Reck, Philadelphia, and Frank Bodine, Kane, spent the weekend with Mr. Mrs. Michael Reck, Shamokin Street. John Deepen. Jr two-vear-old son of Mr.

and Mrs. John DeoDen. sustained a laceration of the forehead in a fall. The child was treated in Geisinger Memorial Hospital, Danville, and discharged. Mrs.

Frank Haick, Butler, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pengelly, Shamokin Street. Singapore, Malaya, has placed orders in England for several million dollars worth of steel and equipment for a new power station. by Dr.

S. J. Heath makes loose dentures fit better than new, and positively prevents denture breath. I Actually does both these things, Even lowers are held so solidly, you'll feel as though a team of horses could not budee them. There has NEVER been anything tube $1.

ttL REA DERICK DRUG STORES SHAMOKIN 56 East Independence Street 28 North Market Street KULPMONT 939 West Chestnut Street leavens I and 1 Donlan Wilfred E. Swinebart Dial 3161 Harrisburg Girl Bride of Area Man Miss Majorie June Arron, and Gabriel K. Kieffer, Dorn-sife, were married yesterday afternoon at 2:00 in the parsonage of Reformed Church. Rev. Jacob Singer performed the ceremony.

Miss Betty June Haas, Harrisburg, served as maid of honor, and Charles Tressler, Harrisburg, was best man. The bride was dressed in a deep rose faille dress with black acces-cories and wore a white orchid corsage. Miss Haas wore a navy blue suit -j with white accessories and a corsage of white lilies. The bridegroom and his attendant were attired in grey business suits. They wore white carnation boutonnieres.

Mrs. Kieffer is a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Arron, Emporium. She was graduated from Middletown High School in 1947, and has been employed by the Bell Telephone Company in Harrisburg.

Kieffer is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Kieffer, Dornsife. He attended Trevorton High School and was em- Jatayed for two years by the Tressler Smber Company in Seward, Alaska. After the ceremony, a reception washeld in the home of the bridegroom's parents.

The newlyweds are on a honeymoon trip to Niagara Falls, N. Y. Mrs. Kieffer will live in Harrisburg. The bridegroom will leave Thursday for induction into the United States Army.

Jurv to Submit Sealed Verdict in Theft Trial A Jury in the trial of Henry Ambrose Helm, Dornsife, R. charged in Schuylkill County court with the theft of several hundred chickens, will deliver a sealed verdict tomorrow to Judge Charles W. Stauden-meier, trial judge. The jury reached a verdict in the' burglary trial, but was directed to deliver its findings tomorrow, Heim is accused of stealing 375 chickens from three Mahantangp Township farms last spring and summer. Dornsife Girl Capped In Geisinger Ceremony Miss Gloria Dolores Kauffman, Dornsife, was one of 37 student who received caps during a lemony Saturday at the Geisinger Hospital School of Nursing and Foss Clinic, Danville.

Capping ceremonies were for freshman students, who will be graduated with the class of 1953. Mr. and Mrs. John Ruesskamp, York, spent the weekend with Mrs. Ruesekamp's brother-in-law and sister, Mr.

and Mrs. Edward (Duke) Heim, Shamokin Street. Mr. and Mrs. Weimer Wetzel, Baltimore, visited their respective mothers, Mrs.

Iona Wetzel, Shamokin Street, and Mrs. Elizabeth Barron, Market Street. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon in Robert Foust Funeral Home, Shamokin Street, for Emily Snyder, Eleventh and Mahanoy Streets. Rev. Bernard Wentzel, pastor of Trevorton Lutheran Church, officiated.

Burial was" in Odd Fellows Cemetery. Mr and Mrs. Ralph Haf er, Milton, and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Tarase-wicz, Sunbury, were recent guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Foust, Shamokin Street. i UlKwt. Uii, of Harrisburg, were Sunday guests of Jesse Geigle's parents, Mr. and 'Mrs.

Charles Geigle, Shamokin Street. Miss Betty Weaver, Harrisburg, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Weaver, Eleventh and Coal Streets. Miss Weave-recently returned from a trip .,0 Europe.

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County Home Fugitive Surrenders to Police A lS-vear-old Milton eirl. who fled the county detention home, Trevorton Road, on the eve of a hearing in juvenile court at Sunbury, has sur rendered to Milton police. Ponce said the girl, escorted Dy a friend, appeared at the Milton municiDal buildine and said she was ready to answer a charge of incorrigibility. She was returned to the detention home along Trevorton Rnari tn await re-scheduline of her hearing. The girl said she went to Elmira, N.

after leaving tne county home. Port Trevorton R. D. 1 Man Expires Suddenly William H. Moyer, 51, Port Trev orton, R.

D. 1, died of a heart attack while he was getting into his auto-mobi'e near the Merck and Company plant at Riverside. Dr. Sidney Kallaway, Northumber land County coroner, ruled Moyer's death was caused by a heart attack. Moyer was a plumber.

He was a lifelong resident of Snyder County. Funeral services were held yesterday in a Port Trevorton funeral home. EXPERT PIANO SERVICE Phone 1021 E. D. MOLL 234 West Independence Street For the Convenience of Our Customers VALLISH of Mount Carmel WILL BE OPEN EVERY THURSDAY EVENING Averages Miles Per Gallon 3L05 MOW i a.

JHLJE CARD OF THANKS I vish to express my sincers eppreciotion to relatives, friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted me during my bereavement. Special thanks are extended to all who sent cars, flowers and sympathy cards. CLARENCE W. SNYDER, Trevorton to buy the suit and topcoat you want, a suit and topcoat to wear for Easter and all the year round, at a price that will be impossible to duplicate. SETS ail Northbrooke Suits and Topcoats $47-50 up "Botany" 500 Suits and Topcoats 65-00 OKI RfflY IN MOBILGAS ECONOMY RUN LOS ANGELES GRAND CANYON BURKLEIGH GABARDINE SUITS $35.00 The economy king for 1951! A Nash Rambler Airflyte has set a new all-time record of 31.05 miles per gallon for the grueling 840-mile Mobilgas Economy Run from Los Angeles to the Grand Canyon.

And the Nash Rambler, in its special class, set this record while traveling at the highest rate of speed of all competing cars 41.132 miles per hour over all types of terrain torrid deserts and lofty mountain peaks. This amazing feat proves again that a Nash Airflyte is the thriftiest car to drive the smartest car to buy. Alpacuna TOPCOATS Alligator TOPCOATS $29)-75 up TEST DRIVE A 1951 Ndsll WELLIVER RAMBLER YOURSELF TODAY RUOTOKS LAndy fpN Charlie A ENS AND PONLAM The Store for Arrow Shirts and Ties TREVORTON ROAD Moderately Priced.

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